Shaggy Dog

Roberta Shore

Shaggy Dog

George-Smith, WDMCo ASCAP

Disneyland Records

1959

Roberta Jymme Schourop (born April 7, 1943, Monterey Park, California) was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 

Roberta never took singing lessons, but appears to have inherited her talent from her father, who once played in a western band.  At age ten she sang at a local supermarket opening, and was noticed by Tex Williams.   He suggested shortening her family name to "Shore", and invited her to join his weekly local television show at Knott's Berry Farm.  After eighteen months of live performing, she next joined NBC's daily childrens program, The Pinky Lee Show, at the suggestion of the departing singer, fourteen year-old Molly Bee. . . .


More about Roberta Shore :

• http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700035664/Say-goodbye-to-Hollywood-Roberta-Shore-gave-up-fame-for-family.html?pg=all
• http://www.originalmmc.com/roberta.html

The Lawrence Welk Show: The Banjo`s Back In Town
Roberta Shore and Buddy Merrill on banjo (1959)

Charlie's Got a Horn

 Melvin Morris

Charlie's Got a Horn

M.Morris, Jim Dandy Music Inc. BMI

Jim Dandy Records

 1961

 Melvin Morris discography

Snow Cap (1960)
KB-601/2 — Heartaches Of A Love Untrue / Please Hear These Words

Jim Dandy (1961)
JD 1004 — Charlie's Got A Horn  /  Remember You're Mine – (Bb rev. 11 December 1961)

Starday (1962)
605 — Spending Nights In Nashville / Still – 10-62

Guitar Record Company (1962)
1100 — The Pauper's Dream / Tell Mother That You Love Me   

•  Melvin Morris picture credit  : from CD "Ice Cold" (Buffalo Bop 55162) 
• Melvin Morris page at Rockin' Country Style here 
• Jim Dandy Records discography here

Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree

Dora Hall

Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree

Calamo Records

Produced and recorded in Hollywood ( probably by H.B. Barnum ).   What is the most remarkable about Dora Hall is her perserverence...  She was not good, she was not bad, she was just... boring.

All about Dora Hall here :
DORA'S WORLD: The Unofficial DORA HALL Website

Paying loving tribute to the Queen of Solo Cups -- and of "vanity entertainment"!
DORA HALL was the undisputed queen of vanity entertainment. Dora's husband was Leo Hulseman, the founder of the immensely successful Solo Cup Company, and a man who was quite happy to delve into Solo's apparently bottomless coffers to finance dozens of record releases by his wife, all of which were given away free of charge with packages of plastic cups and plates during the 1960's. Not content with her "success" in the record business, in the 1970's and 1980's Dora branched out with several full-blown Solo-financed TV specials designed to make her a star--despite the fact that she was an elderly grandmother with limited show business experience.

Pic credit : http://www.popthomology.com/2010/02/trendblender.html

Some Day You'll Need Me

 

Joe Barber

 

"Some Day You'll Need Me"

 

Joe Manganice -  Glad Music BMI

 

Dash Records

 

1959

Houston, Texas.   D Records related (in the same masters series)

Joe Barber real name is Joseph John Barberine and was born in 1931.  Joseph lived, and still live there hopefully, in Sun City, California,  He is listed as president of Califco Publications, Inc.,  located in Van Nuys, Ca.

He wrote songs, most notably "I Can't Get Over You" recorded by George Jones and Melba Montgomery (United Artists, 1965). 

No further info on Joe Barber.

This Dash label is not related to any other labels of the same name :

• Huntsville, Ala, —  Slim Lay And Happy Wilson
• Ft Worth, Tx — Bud & Stan
• South Greesburg, Pa (Fee Bee sub. with bogus Hollywood address on label) —The People,  Buddy Carle
• Detroit Mich. — Bunny Paul
• Chicago, Ill.  — Frank York Orch., Nikki North
• Memphis, Tn (rec. location) — Leon Mitchell And His Kentucky Valley Boys
• Phoenix, Az  —Square Dance label
• Hollywood, Ca.  — Willie Egan

 

 

Send Me Baby

Ralph Jay

Send Me Baby
Jay, Forshay BMI

Orch. & Chorus Directed By Ray Ellis

Royal Roost Records

1956

 Label owner, Jack Hooke, born Jacob Horowitz,, who managed some of the biggest names in jazz, rock 'n' roll and Latin music during 51 years in entertainment, died in 1999.   He was 83. 

Trained, like his four older brothers, as a tool-and-die maker, he decided in the late 1940's that he couldn't stand that line of work.    He and a partner bought Royal Roost Records, a tiny jazz label that recorded the likes of Stan Getz, Erroll Garner, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker.    Mr. Hooke became a plugger, traveling to radio stations around the country to promote Royal Roost's records.

In 1952 he and a friend, the pop music plugger Juggy Gayles, paid a call to WJW in Cleveland where a young D.J., Alan Freed, was playing the latest rhythm 'n' blues for a loyal following of black listeners and a growing number of white fans. Freed and Mr. Hooke hit it off immediately, and soon Mr. Hook became the D.J.'s manager.

 Royal Roost Records

"That was my thing, it didn't sell twenty copies, but I loved it."   But Hooke's access to Alan Freed inevitably caused the label owner to try his hand at rock & roll.  Starting late in 1955, Roost periodically recorded and released songs by local groups, but despite radio airplay from Freed, the records did not sell in any significant quantity.  "I went into bankruptcy twice, and I was struggling".

Then in the summer of 1956, Roost released a song called "Priscilla," sung by Brooklyn-born songwriter Eddie Cooley (who had recently written "Fever" for Little Willie John) and three women who called themselves The Dimples.   By the fall "Priscilla" had risen to number twenty-six on Billboard's national "Top 100" chart.  Jack Hooke finally had his rock & roll hit and "paid off all his bills.     From John A. Jackson, "Big Beat Heat", Alan Freed and the early years of rock and roll.